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Meta AI is ready for war

Meta is opening the door to the US military.

Meta says Oracle has already started building on Llama to “synthesize” maintenance documents to help aircraft technicians make repairs, while Lockheed Martin is using the model to generate code and analyze data. At the time, a Meta spokesperson told Reuters that “the alleged role of a single, and outdated, version of an American open-source model is irrelevant when we know China is already investing more than a trillion dollars to surpass the US on AI.” In its post, Meta described the importance for the US to get ahead in the AI race, saying it’s in “both America and the wider democratic world’s interest for American open source models to excel and succeed over models from China and elsewhere.” Other AI companies are getting involved with the military as well, with a report from The Intercept revealing that the US Africa Command bought cloud computing services from Microsoft, offering access to OpenAI’s tools.

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